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On the 4th of February, 2012, the government of Loreto declared Maijuna a regional conservation area in Peru. The area protects 970,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest, an area bigger than the state of Rhode Island. How did a group of Field Museum scientists play a critical role?

Nueva Vida, one of the four Maijuna communities bordering the new protected area. A. del Campo